5th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force

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Known as 58th Vaughan's Rifles

Chronology

  • 1849 raised as 5th Regiment of Punjab Infantry
  • 1851 retitled as the 5th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Irregular Force
  • 1865 retitled as the 5th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
  • 1903 became 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force)
  • 1922 became 5th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles
  • 1945 became 5th Battalion The Frontier Force Rifles
  • 1947 allocated to Pakistan on partition
  • 1957 amalgamated with The Pathan Regiment and the Frontier Force Regiment to form the new Frontier Force Regiment (10th Battalion)

Deployments

1880: with the Cabul Field Force. Depot at Kohat.
1881: At Dera Ismail Khan.[1]

Regimental history

  • History of the 5th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1849- 1926 by H. C Wylly, (Harold Carmichael). 1929. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01007254905 . Also available in a reprint edition,[2] which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see below.
  • The Frontier Force Rifles by Brigadier W E H Condon 1953. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001795360 . Also available in a reprint edition, with a slightly different title,[3] which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see below.
  • A Summarised History of the 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army, during the Second World War, 1939-1946 by [A.D. FitzGerald]. 1985. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011838679

External Links

Historical books online

References

  1. Johnathan The Khyber Rifles Victorian Wars Forum 14 June 2012, now archived.
  2. History Of The 5th Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles 1849-1926 by Col. H. C. Wylly Naval & Military Press reprint edition.
  3. The Frontier Force Rifles 1849 – 1946 by Brigadier W E H Condon. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.
  4. idler. Condon - The Frontier Force Rifles 1849-1946, post 2, WW2Talk Forum 10 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020. To access the text, you must be signed into WW2Talk Forum.